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Advanced Platform Development
Rebuilding a complete self-hosted data platform from FOSS on Kubernetes, one working component at a time.
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Structural ratchets for AI-assisted Go, six months into make verify
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flowchart LR F["Function<br>lint · race · coverage"] --> S["Structure<br>size · fields · imports · vaporware"] --> G["Integrity<br>pins · CI parity · tests run"]
Function-level lint cannot see a god package. gocyclo at 10, funlen at 80, revive’s argument limits: all of those look inside one function. Two hundred methods of complexity 8 on one type is legal. After six months …
Current Series
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MCP on the Wire
The Model Context Protocol taken apart one message at a time, hand-rolled in Go with no SDK in the way.
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MCP Studies
Measured studies of MCP agent behavior: knowledge-layer ablation, stored-knowledge use, the measurement harness, knowledge pollution, and cross-reference document completion.
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AI on a Leash
Mechanical verification for AI-written code: strict linting, coverage gates, mutation testing, and a pre-commit gate that refuses the commit.
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Recent Notes
143
Do Cross-References Help LLM Agents Complete Documents?
The agent found every page certified unreachable. Links cut search cost and keep working when search is off; they do not change what it reaches
2026-08-20
142Knowledge Pollution: Verification Displacement, Capability, and the Price of a Curation Gate
A wrong note that passed review spread only where the agent could have checked it, and only on Haiku 4.5: 16 of 24, against 0 of 24 on Sonnet 5 and Opus 5
2026-08-17
141On-Prem GPUs in a Boring Kubernetes Cluster
Adding your own GPUs to the platform with the NVIDIA GPU Operator
2026-08-12
140One Cluster Across Clouds and Your Garage: Hybrid k3s With WireGuard
A single Kubernetes cluster spanning cloud regions and your own hardware, encrypted over the public internet
2026-08-10
139What Happened to the Blockchain Chapter
Why the chapter is cut from this rebuild, and where tamper-evidence lives in 2026
2026-08-08
138Serverless Without the Cloud: Knative on Your Cluster
Scale-to-zero functions you own, after OpenFaaS moved the good parts behind a paywall
2026-08-06
137Write-Heavy and Always On: Cassandra and Scylla on Kubernetes
Running Cassandra and Scylla on K8ssandra and the Scylla Operator after Rook dropped its own
2026-08-04
136Event-Driven Object Processing: Bucket Events to Jobs
Object storage that triggers work, a self-hosted answer to S3 plus Lambda on your own cluster
2026-08-02